(WTNH)– Owner/Executive Chef Silvio Suppa from Cafe Allegre/WoodWinds and Italian Historian/Author/Photographer Anthony Riccio show us how to make Pasta Fasul .

From the legendary Del Monaco’s in New Haven to downtown picturesque Madison, Connecticut, renowned Executive Chef/Owner Silvio Suppa serves his signature and award-winning Mediterranean cuisine. For larger events, WoodWinds in Branford. His philosophy is “from the Campania Sea, mountains and farm to his tables” serving only fresh, delectable and authentic Italian dishes for you! With their welcoming atmosphere, you’ll find families and celebrities dinning and feasting on Chef Silvio’s delicious, home-style meals infused with current trends resulting in “New World Italian Cuisine”.

Anthony Riccio, Italian Historian, Author and Photographery is the co-author of their cookbook, Cooking with Chef Silvio, and he’ll also be speaking at Cafe Allegre’s “Taste of Italy” a six week Food & Wine tour of six different regions of Italy taking place every Wednesday night. They’re kicking it off Wednesday, March 4 – April 8th. Campania will be the first region – Silvio’s hometown.

The recipe is below and for more on the cookbook and how to make the pasta watch the video.

Dr. Gold discusses ther safety of Epi-LASIK vs LASIK, preventing pain with Epi-LASIK, what to expect after Epi-LASIK and eye protection after Epi-LASIK.

Dr. Jeffrey Gold is a board certified and award winning Ophthalmologist who has been changing the lives of patients for over 35 years. At his office, he performs a variety of custom and standard laser visioncorrection procedures including LASIK, PRK and Epi-LASIK (Advanced Surface Ablation). He has performed more than 10,000 LASIK procedures and over 1,000 PRK and Epi-LASIK procedures while receiving many awards for his work. Choosing a doctor as experienced and recognized as Dr. Gold is critical to your effort in getting the desired and needed treatments for your eyes.

Ada Pasternak is Russian born vocalist, classically trained violinist and songwriter. She recently graduated from Berklee College of Music on a full Presidential Scholarship and is now living in NYC focusing on her greatest passions; writing music and performing.

This yoga often called The Great Healer. It is a sequence which flows through movements of all of the joints in the body, bringing movement, range of motion, freedom from stiffness and healing.

The more we move, the easier it becomes to move. Movement allows the body the opportunity to create synovial fluid between the joints, the more it creates, the easier it is to move. It”s purpose is to reduce friction during movement.

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — From “The World’s Most Super Amazing 100% Awesome Cat Calendar,” to a sandwich maker called the Grilled Cheesus, crowdfunding is used for just about everything. But the popular trend isn’t just for fun and games. A growing number of college students are turning to sites like GoFundMe and Kickstarter to help those in need halfway across the world.

“It’s so easy for people to log on to GoFundMe and start an account and start a fundraiser within 15 minutes,” said Samantha Nanayakkara, a student at Yale University.

Last year, instead of planning a traditional spring break, Nanayakkara and Yale student Kenneth Gunasekera decided to put their time to good use by organizing a group trip to Sri Lanka. Their goal? To help an orphanage in need.

“We’re both Sri Lanken-American,” Gunasekera explained. “We’ve been to Sri Lanka a couple of times, but we’d mostly gone to visit relatives and we never engaged with the country in sort of a service capacity. We wanted to give back to the culture that’s given us so much.”

But they needed funds for the things they wanted to do at Sanhinda Children’s Home, like install a new water pump, buy new beds and mattresses, get new uniforms for the kids, and teach them English. So they decided to set up a go fund me campaign, setting their goal initially at a $1,000 dollars. When they quickly hit that milestone, they upped it to $3,000, which they reached in less than a month.

“Recently, more than 50 million dollars was raised for more than 7,500 charities in a matter of just a day online,” said Robert Forbus, Ph.D., an associate professor of marketing at Southern Connecticut State University. “This is not going away. It’s only growing.”

So if you’re going to use crowdfunding to raise money, what’s the secret to success? We asked Dr. Forbus to weigh in. “The people who do the best at crowdfunding are the people who have a really compelling story to tell,” Dr. Forbus said.

“When we set up our account we made sure we had a very compelling description of our trip, so we talked about the kids we were going to be working with and their background and how much they needed the resources that this money could give them,” Nanayakkara recalled.

A good picture on your campaign page is also key. “We had a really, really cute kid from the orphanage,” Gunasekera said.

Another tip? Get the word out about your campaign to as many people as possible. “I think the easiest thing is we just had a link that we could send out to everyone,” Gunasekera explained. “We basically spammed almost everyone we knew, like teachers from high school, some of our friends around here on Facebook.”

“Ken and I have very supportive family and friend network that we sent it out to and they were all so helpful and all gave at least 10 or 15 dollars,” Nanayakkara said. “Every little bit helped.”

Also always send a follow up note to those who contributed, not just to thank them, but to also explain how their money was used. “If you go into that arena and you’re not authentic, you’re not real, and you don’t deliver on your promises, it’s a pretty bad mark on your name and your character going forward,” Dr. Forbus said.

“GoFundMe gives you a space for donors to actually enter their own information like their name and email address in, and you can keep them updated with how the project is going, send them pictures afterwards, so I think it’s really important to collect that information so you can eventually follow up,” Gunasekera said.

For Nanayakkara, Gunasekera and the 13 other students on their trip, the donors gave them more than they could have imagined … An experience to last a lifetime.

All of the money the group of Yale students raised went directly to the orphanage and they even had some money leftover to set up an account from which the orphanage could withdraw money from when needed.

Ceschi is a singer songwriter & progressive poet from New Haven. Inspired by the legendary weatherman Dr. Mel Goldstein & Emma Goldman, he makes his own version of hip hop spliced with elements of folk & indie rock. Although he has the speed rap abilities of Busta Rhymes he’s also known for playing shockingly honest acoustic ballads.

He’s recorded a few albums, has toured throughout North America, Europe, Asia & Australia and owns the Fake Four label with his brother David.

(WTNH)– Culinary Arts Teacher Joanna Siciliano and student Sophia Carasone from Haddam-Killingworth Highschool show us how to make Nutella Mousse in a homemade chocolate cup.

The recipe is below and check out the video to learn how to make it.

Nutella Mousse in Chocolate Cups

Two Ingredient Nutella Mousse
Yield: fills about 24 mini muffins
Ingredients
• 1 cup Nutella
• 2 cups heavy whipping cream, cold
Instructions
Place the nutella in a large bowl. If you like, microwave it for a few seconds to soften it. Then, let it cool a bit .
In a mixer bowl, beat the heavy cream until soft peaks form. Add 3 tablespoons of the whipped cream to the nutella bowl and whisk by hand until smooth. Gently fold in the rest of the whipped cream until combined and smooth.
Chill the mousse to set for at least 2 hours. Store the mousse in the fridge, covered, for up to 3 days.
Chocolate Cups
Yield: 24 mini muffin cups
• 1 bag chocolate melting discs
• 1 paint brush (Only used for food purposes)
• Mini muffin papers
• 24 cup mini muffin tray
• Decorative Sprinkles
Slowly melt the chocolate in a microwave safe bowl. Microwave for 40 seconds on low heat and stir. Continue this process until the chocolate is fully melted. (Make sure to melt chocolate slow so it does not burn).
Once melted take the paint brush and paint the muffin papers. Once they have a coat of chocolate place in the freezer for five minutes. After take them out and give a second coat place back in the freezer for five more minutes. After fully dry, carefully remove the muffin paper from the chocolate. You can then dip the top edges into melted chocolate and then dip into the colored sprinkles for a decorative edge.